Ebersmunster Abbey

The monastery Ebersmünster was a former Benedictine monastery in the Alsatian community Ebersmünster. The Abbey Church of St. Mauritius is still preserved.

Foundation

The Holy Deodatus (also known as Apostle of the Vosges, French Saint Dié, † June 19 679 ), from 655 bishop of Nevers, founded with relics of St. Maurice, which he received from the Abbey of Saint- Maurice, after being on the island Novientum ( an island in the Ill ), the Church of St. Peter and Paul had helped build with the side altar of St. Mauritius, II the monastery Ebersmünster in Alsace in 667 Soon after, in the year 669 he built with the help of Chilperic a hermitage, the later was due to a donation of King Childeric II to the monastery Jointures in Kaysersberg.

History

Thanks to the support of Adalrich, the father of St. Odilia and later also canonized St. Hunna of Hunawihr, the monastery quickly reached the bloom. However, in the Thirty Years' War, the Swedes burned the reliquary of Ebersmünster.